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The Sentry™
Card# MTU-017
While his stats aren’t much bigger than those of the average 7-drop, Sentry’s “Pay ATK” power can drastically hinder an opponent’s attacking options in the late game.
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| The Rigged Elections Deck |
| Patrick Sullivan |
| August 21, 2004 |
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Team Your Move Games, based out of Boston, has a history of creating innovative and powerful decks for all varieties of TCGs, and this tournament was no different. I had a chance to sit down with Rob Dougherty, owner of Your Move Games and captain of the team, to discuss what is possibly the talk of the tournament, the Rigged Elections deck. Rob played this deck to a 4-3 record, good enough for Day 2, where he will be joined by most of the people who played the deck.
Robert Dougherty
Rigged Elections
2 Query and Echo
1 Ratcatcher
1 Ventriloquist
4 Harley Quinn
4 Mr. Fantastic, Reed Richards
4 Invisible Woman, The Invisible Girl
4 Alfred Pennyworth
8 GCPD Officer
1 Barbara Gordon◊ Oracle
1 Frankie
1 Ant Man
4 Cosmic Radiation
4 Bat Signal
3 Signal Flare
4 Fizzle
2 Rigged Elections
4 A Child Named Valeria
4 World’s Finest
4 Marvel Team-Up
Q: So, how exactly does your deck work?
A: Basically, you need two different team-ups to get Inmates, Fantastic Four, and Gotham Knights all on the same team, and then you have your little guys power up Rigged Elections. Then, in one turn, you can play Alfred Pennyworth to search out a Cosmic Radiation, add counters to the Election with your guys, replay Alfred, ready all of your guys with the Radiation, and search again with Alfred. The deck nearly always wins by the fifth turn, and sometimes by the fourth.
 Q: Who came up with the idea for this deck?
A: The guys down at Kings Games (a store in Brooklyn) had the initial build of the deck, but it was based around Advanced Hardware and had all these slow cards in it like Four Freedoms Plaza. Once we got a hold of the idea, Justin Gary took over designing the deck, but when it got to me it still had the Four Freedoms Plaza plan in it. Once we started working on it, the whole deck got streamlined, the inefficient cards got removed, and we added more cheap characters. One of the team members was able to get the idea for the Alfred/Rigged Elections engine off of some random guy on IRC. We then imported this idea into the deck, replacing the Mr. Fantastic, Stretch/Advanced Hardware plan. At first the deck was dismissed, but after reconsidering the card choices and matchups, most of the team decided to run it. Additionally, other cards were added. A Child Named Valeria was added, and that card is really important. It allows you to build up a density of guys without having a bunch of them stunned, and with Alfred you can get them every turn. It also makes it very difficult for your opponent to push through damage because none of your characters get stunned, and Harley Quinn can reinforce from anywhere.
Q: What are the matchups like?
A: The matchups are strange because you auto-win some matchups. Sentinels, any Brotherhood deck, Fantastic Four, X-Men, basically any deck without disruption of any sort can’t possibly beat you. Since you nearly always win by turn 5 at the latest, decks like these can’t possibly beat you in time, especially if you have A Child Named Valeria. Furthermore, one advantage of this build compared to the Advanced Hardware build is that since you win with Rigged Elections, your opponent doesn’t even get the chance to attack you, meaning that if you go off on the fifth turn, you effectively won on the fourth turn. The really difficult matchups are Common Enemy (the Fantastic Four/Dr. Doom team-up) because they have Dr. Doom, Diabolic Genius, which slows down the combo considerably, and then they can sweep up your whole team with Thing, The Ever-Lovin’ Blue-Eyed Thing. Also, the Teen Titans/Gotham Knights team-up is nearly unwinnable. They also have Alfred Pennyworth, and they use him to get all these great reactive cards like Have A Blast!, Fizzle, and the like. Furthermore, Garth ◊ Tempest allows them to get it all back. But besides those two decks, everything is at least a very good matchup. |
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